bottom

1. 1.

   provide with a bottom or a seat

   “bottom the chairs”

   Broadersupply

   cabinetwork

2. 2.

   strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom

   Broaderhit
3. 3.

   come to understand

   Synonymspenetratefathom

   Broaderunderstand

1. 1.

   situated at the bottom or lowest position

   “the bottom drawer”

   Antonymssidetop

   Similarbottommostinferiornether
2. 2.

   the lowest rank

   “bottom member of the class”

   Similarworst

Other forms of bottom

plural

bottoms·

past tense

bottommed·

present participle

bottomming·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bottom

What does bottom mean?

bottom means "the lower side of anything". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bottom?

bottom has 2 syllables: bot-tom. The stress falls on "bot". In IPA it is /ˈbɑtəm/.

What is another word for bottom?

Close synonyms include underside, undersurface, buttocks, nates, arse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of bottom?

The recorded antonyms are top, side, top.

Is bottom a common word?

bottom is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.